Tekena Gasper MarkTekena Gasper Mark is a Poet, Novelist, Director, and Dramatist with research interests in African Theatre, Film, and Performance Studies. He teaches in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, Rivers State University, Nigeria, with over seven yeas of research and teaching experience. His book 'Ideas on Directing Experimental Theatre' (Nigeria, 2016) provides insights into how directors can realize experimental performances with perspectives from Western and Nigerian directors. He holds a Ph.D. in Play Directing and teaches directing, playwriting, dramatic theory and criticism, and music theatre. He has written plays, directed shows, and published articles in scholarly journals. His current research interests include digital performances, audience research, ecocriticism, theatre and migration studies. While his play, 'The Women's War', was shortlisted for the 2022 African Writers Awards, Mark is in the process of publishing a collection of his plays on historical and contemporary African issues, as well as a course textbook on playwriting. Read More Read Less